On Thursday 06 March 2008 4:13:17 am Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> I have a naive question about sound drivers: Squeak VM 3.9-8 ships with 2
> sound drivers (well 3):
>> vm-sound-null
> vm-sound-ALSA
> vm-sound-OSS
>> How does Squeak, at runtime, decide which of them is used?
>> Is there a way to "ask" for one of them to be used first. For example,
> Linux can have either ALSA or OSS or both available, what is the process of
> deciding which will be used when sound is to be played?
>> Thanks Milan
You pass a command line parameter -vm-sound-<driver>. The default
is -vm-sound-ALSA. If you want to check which sound module a running squeak
process uses, use the command:
$ grep vm-sound- /proc/$(pgrep -x squeak)/maps
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